NJ Woman Kicks Dead Bear After it Attacked Her Llamas, Breaks Toe

Here’s one from the “Don’t Kick Them When They’re Down” files, or maybe the “Don’t Make Me Angry. You Won’t Like Me When I’m Angry” files. A New Jersey woman who was defending her llamas against an aggressive black bear ended up receiving a broken toe in the melee after repeatedly kicking the now-dead bear’s head in a self-described “hissy fit.”

Lydia Chiappini was asleep on a couch in her art studio when she awoke to the screams of one of her llamas being mauled by a bear. But she didn’t think too much of it at first. “I thought he might have been wrestling with another llama because they make the same noise, you know?” Chiappini said Monday. She quickly, however, found herself between her llama and the bear, an intruder police ended up shooting.